Box 1

Photographs of Jewish activities held at the U.S. Naval Training Station, Newport, RI, 1942-1945. Also included is a program from the 1942 Hanukkah service.

Correspondence, letters sent to his parents from Navy Pre-Flight School, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1942–1943, describing his training and daily routine; Letters to his fiancée, Phyllis Weidman from Camp Endicott, Davisville, RI, regarding his daily schedule, Anti-Aircraft School, Newport, RI and wedding plans, 1945. Photographs of J.L. Rodgers and Phyllis Weidman, 1945.

Correspondence, letters sent to his family describing his midshipman summer cruises aboard the Constellation, June 13, 1890-August 25, 1890, June 11, 1892-August 14, 1892. Copies

Photographs; Correspondence, letters sent and received, 1994; two articles by CDR Roman Brooks and Thomas Wildenberg, 1968 and 1993; Change of Command Program, 1974; Obituary.

Official navy biography; letters sent and received regarding his appointment and duty as U.S. Naval Attache and Air Attache in Russia, 1951-1952. Copies.

Correspondence, letters sent to his father George Seacote, describing his life aboard ship, scrubbing decks, a fight aboard the vessel, Thanksgiving dinner, his illness, collecting the bounty due him, surety money before going ashore, a democratic meeting in New York City, and requests for stamps and money to buy a book entitled The Kedge Anchor, 1864-1865.

Notebook containing letters of Hosmer to his wife and son from City Prison, Havana, Cuba, December 7, 1818, June 24, 1819- November 3, 1819, and to Ludyah Robinson, esq. from Omva, May 27, 1832- May 30, 1832; a letter to Mrs. Hosmer from Stanford Robinson, Omva, June 3, 1832, and a letter from James Price to Ludyah Robinson, May 30, 1832, Belize; Notebook of history of last years of Captain Hosmer and his son Asa taken from letters to his daughter, Sophia Robinson and others who knew him.

Letters to Martin Detmer from Ned Lockwood, 1986-1992; Letter of Bill Mead, 31 October 1945, Letter from Ned Lockwood, 15 September 1945, PT Squadron 17 History, PF Squadron 17 All Hands Note; Photographs; Map of The Philippines, NWCF certificae and Program, Veterans Memorial Dedicator, 11/11/2006.

Reminiscences of service in the U.S. Army in Narragansett Bay, 1941-1944; Fort Varnum, 1945; and photographs in Army uniform and unidentified ship. Interview with Michael Trombley, March 10, 2002. Memories of Fort Getty and Fort Wetherill, Karlsruhe, 1946, Kassel, Germany and Korea.

Writings, addresses, letters, etc., relating to the United States military, naval air power, modern warfare and space exploration. Hartford, Connecticut, 1966–1970.